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underlip

American  
[uhn-der-lip] / ˈʌn dərˌlɪp /

noun

  • underlips
    plural
  1. the lower or bottom lip.


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He reads early and late with his underlip stuck far out.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Churchill jaw set grimly, the underlip went out, and the Prime Minister growled: "Don't worry, they'll get it back."

From Time Magazine Archive

A clean-cut little man with sleepy eyelids, confident, protruding underlip and well-defined paunch, he continued to be a familiar figure about training-camps, gymnasiums and other haunts of pugilists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most tedious shot: Dietrich biting her underlip to express passion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members, that’s what Milton felt, seeing his father sunk in desk light, jutting out a moist underlip, scanning a dead language.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

All have sandy hair, white eyebrows, and thick underlips.

From Jerusalem by Velma Swanston Howard

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